Lantern Festival 2012, Your Desire Must be Fulfilled…….

The traditional Lantern Festival was held on Monday in China. This holiday means the 15th and last day of Spring Festival – An annual celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. The lantern look so beautiful…Let me show you the beauty of it….

1. People performing dragon dance in the shower of sparks of fireworks in the park in Chongqing, China. (By Chen Cheng)

2.Thousands of people wearing helmets beacause of the spark, Standing and watching fireworks in Yangshuo, Taiwan. Fireworks Festival in Yangshuo has occurred in the late XIX century,when the villagers suffered cholera epidemic, They used fireworks to scare away the evil spirits, they thought that evil spirits brought the infection to their villages. (Photo By Wally Santana)

3. People gathered in the Garden Yuyuan after the Chinese New Year. (By Eugene Hoshiko)

4. Here you can see beautiful Lanterns in the form of a dragon, View of the garden in ovremya Yuyuan Lantern Festival. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko)

5. People around a large lantern again in the shape of a dragon, in the garden of Yuyuan. (Eugene Hoshiko)

6. People gathered and enjoying the Yuyuan Lantern Festival. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko)

7. A girl wearing a mask walks past lights in the form of terracotta warriors in Beijing. (Photo by Alexander F. Yuan)

8. A couple walking under lanterns in Yuyuan Garden. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko)

9. Performers dancing at the event on the eve of the Feast of lanterns in the shopping center, Beijing. (Photo by Alexander F. Yuan)

10. Working in the costume of the god of luck giving the opportunity to the people to touch the ancient symbol of money and good luck in the Yuyuan Garden. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko)

11. Workers with the lights,which are deflated and partially torned by a strong wind,in a shopping area, Beijing. (Photo by Alexander F. Yuan)

12. A man on an empty square, which is beautifuly decorated with red lanterns, Beijing. (Photo by Alexander F. Yuan)

13. Artist playing drums in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province. ( Qi Xiaojun)

14. People walking under the red lanterns in Jinan. (Photo by Zhu Zheng)

15. Boys and girls sending lantern Kunming (made of paper) into the sky, on the eve of the Feast of lanterns in Wenzhou. In China, it is assumed that if you send a flashlight into the sky, then your desire must be fulfilled.( Chen Xiang)

16. People on the Lantern Festival in Taipei. (Photo by Chiang Ying-ying)

17. People looking at the lights in Taipei. (Photo by Chiang Ying-ying)

18. A lantern in the shape of a dragon in the park Baise. (Photo by Luo Zhiken)

19. People watching the dragon dance during a Lantern Festival in Chzhayin, Guizhou Province. (AP )

20. People taking pictures of the artists at the shopping center in Beijing. (Photo by Alexander F. Yuan)

21. Dancers with the drums under the lights, after the show in a shopping center in Beijing. (Photo by Alexander F. Yuan)

22. Women dressed as a royal representative of the Qing Dynasty in the shopping center, Beijing during the Lantern Festival. (Photo by Alexander F. Yuan)

23. People are watching dancing on donkeys in a shopping center, Beijing. (Photo by Alexander F. Yuan)

24. Chinese girl wearing a mask with a flashlight in the shape of lotus, standing next to the shop of lights in the city of Nanjing. (AP )

25. High school students in Taipei. ( Photo by Jin Liangkuai)

26. Here youu can see people involved in the dragon dance in the county Syantszyuy. Where people make a dragon of bamboo, decorate with colorful paper and lit a candle. Locals believe that the dragon dance can bring them good fortune and peace. ( Xu Yu)

27. Hundreds of Taiwanese sending “sky lanterns” in the hope of good luck and prosperity in the new year. (Photo by Wally Santana)